Ambrosia beetle2

• The cause was determined to be a previously unknown fungus, Harringtonia lauricola, formerly Raffaelea lauricola) transported (vectored) by a recently introduced ambrosia beetle from Asia, Xyleborus glabratus (Fraedrich et al . (dontmovefirewood.org)
• Xyleborus is by far the largest ambrosia beetle genus in the tribe Xyleborini, with over 500 species. (wikipedia.org)